1940 Football Championship of the Ukrainian SSR

The 1940 Football Championship of UkrSSR were part of the 1940 Soviet republican football competitions in the Soviet Ukraine.

Persha Hrupa
Promoted: Relegated: Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad
 * (Druha Hrupa) Avanhard Horlivka
 * (debut) Zenit Kharkiv
 * (reinstated) Spartak Dnipropetrovsk


 * FC Stal Kostiantynivka withdrew from competitions

Druha Hrupa
Promoted: Relegated: Sudnobudivnyk-2 Mykolaiv
 * (Tretia Hrupa) Tsukrovyk Sumy, Spartak Poltava
 * (reinstated) Stal Voroshylovsk

Tretia Hrupa
Promoted: Spartak Vinnytsia

Replaced: Voskhod Zhytomyr → Dynamo Zhytomyr, Dynamo Kamianets-Podilskyi → Dynamo Proskurov

Ukrainian clubs at the All-Union level

 * Group A (2): Dynamo Kyiv, Stakhanovets Stalino
 * Group B (5): Dynamo Kharkiv, Sudnobudivnyk Mykolaiv, Silmash Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Kyiv, Kharchovyk Odesa

Withdrawn

 * (all-Union level) Stal (z-d im. Lenina) Dnipropetrovsk (1936), Stal (z-d im. Petrovskoho) Dnipropetrovsk (1939), Dynamo Dnipropetrovsk (1937), Traktor Kharkiv (1937), Spartak Kharkiv (1939), Spartak Kyiv (1937), Dynamo Odesa (1939, Dzerzhynets Voroshylovhrad (1939)
 * (Republican) Spartak Kryvyi Rih, Kryla Rad Zaporizhia, Kharchovyk Tiraspol, Temp Vinnytsia, Stal Makiivka, Stakhanovets Krasnoarmiysk, Lokomotyv Synelnykove, Znannia Kherson, z-d im. Lenina Verkhiy, Stakhanovets Lysychansk, Lokomotyv Lozova, Lokomotyv Kharkiv, Lokomotyv Dnipropetrovsk, Dynamo-2 Kyiv, Zenit Stalino, Zenit Voroshylovhrad, z-d im. Stalina Stalino, z-d KinAp Odesa, UDKA Kyiv, Stalinets Kharkiv, Voskhod Zhytomyr, Dynamo Kamianets-Podilskyi, Krasnyi Luch, Chystiakove, Melitopol, Berdiansk, Berdychiv, Novohrad-Volynskyi, Korosten, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Uman, Koziatyn, Voznesensk, Kremenchuk, Konotop, Smila, Kupiansk, Starobilsk, Artemivsk, Sloviansk